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2021: A Year Physicists Asked, ‘What Lies Beyond the Standard Model?’
If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.” The Standard Model explains the fundamental physics of how the universe works. It has endured over 50 trips around the Sun despite experimental physicists constantly probing for cracks in the model’s foundations.…
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The Spacecraft That’s Going to Smash Into an Asteroid Just Sent Back Its First Pictures
It’s been a month since the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched on its way to the binary asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos. DART captured its first images three weeks ago, an important operational milestone as the spacecraft hurtles toward a collision with Dimorphos.
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Our Understanding of Black Holes Has Changed Over Time
It took Albert Einstein 10 years to find the equations of general relativity, but German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild only needed a few months to solve them. Schwarzschild’s solution describes the gravity of an isolated, spherical and unchanging object — the enigmatic black hole — but it was not understood for many years. Black holes helped…
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WA Residents Still Dealing With the Aftermath of Perth’s Christmas Outage
Over the Christmas break, Perth homes were subjected to a heatwave and a power outage, two things you don’t want during the festive season.